Newark Crusader - A charity providing free trips for the disabled on the River Trent in Newark, Nottinghamshire staffed entirely by volunteers
Coventry Rainbow Canal Boat Trust - The Trust owns and operates the Lady Godiva, a narrowboat specially adapted for use by people of all ages with mental or physical disabilities.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Attractions Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Attractions
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Attractions There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Attractions
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Attractions "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Attractions
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Attractions "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Attractions
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Attractions A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Attractions
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Attractions Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Attractions
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Attractions Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Attractions
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Attractions Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Attractions
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Attractions After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Attractions
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Attractions Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Attractions
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Attractions There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Attractions
